O PIONEERS! (Reader's Digest The World's Best Reading Series)

Cather, Willa; (Noel Perrin, Afterword)

ISBN 10: 0895773546 / ISBN 13: 9780895773548

Published by Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY, 1990

About this Item

BRAND NEW Copy. Illustrated, embossed bi-color boards w/green faux leather back strap. Book dealer sticker to back cover verso. Fiction. First published 1913; this is complete reprint of the orginal text. Pulitzer prize winner (1923, One of Ours) author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) moved to Nebraska as a child and was reared among the immigrants who are often subjects of her novels. In this work, a masterful portrait of farming life a hundred years ago in Nebraska, she turns to the Nebraska prairies to tell of the heroic and creative qualities of the passing frontier.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: O PIONEERS! (Reader's Digest The World's Best Reading Series)
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895773546
• ISBN 13: 9780895773548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Mark Weakley (Illustrations)
• Edition: First Edition, First Thus
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction/Novel/Short Story
  • Literature/Literary Criticism
  • History

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From the Inside Flap

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book

"This beautifully produced book is a joy to read and demonstrates the real pleasures to be derived from meticulous attention to detail and the highest standards of scholarship."—American Literary Scholarship.

"The first of the Cather Scholarly Editions sets a high standard of quality. . . . Text and context reveal the splendor of O Pioneers! and enrich both the experience and study of Cather’s extraordinary prose."—Western American Literature.

Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, "the first time I walked off on my own feet—everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired." Cather’s novel of life on the Nebraska frontier established her reputation as a writer of great note and marked a significant turning point in her artistic development. No longer would she let literary convention guide the form of her writing; the materials themselves would dictate the structure.

The paperback edition contains all the text and scholarly apparatus found in the original Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association, this volume presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information on the novel.